How Texas has voted since 1960

Texas has 40 electoral votes in 2028, and at the current pace of population change it would gain four electoral votes after the 2030 census. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 4 times and Republican 13 times. It has backed the national winner in 11 of 17 elections. Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by 13.7 points, 12.2 points more Republican than the nation. In 2024, 56.8% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 47th among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Republican in every election since 1980. Its closest result was in 1968, when Hubert Humphrey won it by 1.3 points.

  1. 1960Kennedy+2.0
  2. 1964Johnson+26.8
  3. 1968Humphrey+1.3
  4. 1972Nixon+33.0
  5. 1976Carter+3.2
  6. 1980Reagan+13.9
  7. 1984Reagan+27.5
  8. 1988Bush+12.6
  9. 1992Bush+3.5
  10. 1996Dole+4.9
  11. 2000Bush+21.3
  12. 2004Bush+22.9
  13. 2008McCain+11.8
  14. 2012Romney+15.8
  15. 2016Trump+9.0
  16. 2020Trump+5.6
  17. 2024Trump+13.7

Each box is one election: the winner in Texas and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.

Election night

8 p.m. ET

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. Central); in El Paso and Hudspeth counties (Mountain Time) they close at 9 p.m. ET.

Also closing at 8 p.m. ET: AL, CT, DE, DC, IL, KS, ME, MD, MA, MI, MS, MO, NH, NJ, ND, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN.

Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.

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In Congress

Senate

House: 24 Republicans, 13 Democrats

All 37 members
  1. 1 Nathaniel Moran (R)
  2. 2 Dan Crenshaw (R)
  3. 3 Keith Self (R)
  4. 4 Pat Fallon (R)
  5. 5 Lance Gooden (R)
  6. 6 Jake Ellzey (R)
  7. 7 Lizzie Fletcher (D)
  8. 8 Morgan Luttrell (R)
  9. 9 Al Green (D)
  10. 10 Michael T. McCaul (R)
  11. 11 August Pfluger (R)
  12. 12 Craig A. Goldman (R)
  13. 13 Ronny Jackson (R)
  14. 14 Randy K. Sr. Weber (R)
  15. 15 Monica De La Cruz (R)
  16. 16 Veronica Escobar (D)
  17. 17 Pete Sessions (R)
  18. 18 Christian D. Menefee (D)
  19. 19 Jodey C. Arrington (R)
  20. 20 Joaquin Castro (D)
  21. 21 Chip Roy (R)
  22. 22 Troy E. Nehls (R)
  23. 24 Beth Van Duyne (R)
  24. 25 Roger Williams (R)
  25. 26 Brandon Gill (R)
  26. 27 Michael Cloud (R)
  27. 28 Henry Cuellar (D)
  28. 29 Sylvia R. Garcia (D)
  29. 30 Jasmine Crockett (D)
  30. 31 John R. Carter (R)
  31. 32 Julie Johnson (D)
  32. 33 Marc A. Veasey (D)
  33. 34 Vicente Gonzalez (D)
  34. 35 Greg Casar (D)
  35. 36 Brian Babin (R)
  36. 37 Lloyd Doggett (D)
  37. 38 Wesley Hunt (R)

From Congress.gov, as of Sept. 28, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.

Margin by election

Texas margin by electionBars show the Democratic or Republican margin in Texas in each election since 1960; the line shows the national popular-vote margin. The table below has every figure.R+40R+30R+20R+10EvenD+10D+20D+30D+401960: D+2.0 (nation D+0.2)'601964: D+26.8 (nation D+22.6)'641968: D+1.3 (nation R+0.7)'681972: R+33.0 (nation R+23.2)'721976: D+3.2 (nation D+2.1)'761980: R+13.9 (nation R+9.7)'801984: R+27.5 (nation R+18.2)'841988: R+12.6 (nation R+7.7)'881992: R+3.5 (nation D+5.6)'921996: R+4.9 (nation D+8.5)'962000: R+21.3 (nation D+0.5)'002004: R+22.9 (nation R+2.5)'042008: R+11.8 (nation D+7.3)'082012: R+15.8 (nation D+3.9)'122016: R+9.0 (nation D+2.1)'162020: R+5.6 (nation D+4.5)'202024: R+13.7 (nation R+1.5)'24

Texas margin National popular vote

By county

Donald Trump won 242 of Texas' 254 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 12.

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Largest counties, 2024

CountyVotesMarginShift from 2020
Harris County1,557,484D+5.5→R 7.7
Dallas County849,872D+22.2→R 9.5
Tarrant County823,312R+5.1→R 5.3
Bexar County758,323D+9.7→R 8.4
Travis County581,276D+39.3→R 5.9
Collin County515,585R+11.1→R 6.8
Denton County449,188R+13.1→R 5.1
Fort Bend County362,524D+1.6→R 9.0
Williamson County308,469R+2.4→R 3.8
Montgomery County307,258R+45.5→R 1.6

Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Maverick County (27.9), Webb County (25.5), Starr County (21.0); toward the Democrat, Kaufman County (6.0), Ellis County (3.0), Crockett County (1.7) — in points of margin.

County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.

Results by year

YearWinnerDemocratRepublicanOtherMarginNationTurnoutEV
2024 Donald TrumpTrumpHarris 42.5%4,835,250Trump 56.1%6,393,5971.4%R+13.7R+1.556.8%40
2020 Donald TrumpTrump lostBiden 46.5%5,259,126Trump 52.1%5,890,3471.5%R+5.6D+4.559.8%38
2016 Donald TrumpTrumpClinton 43.2%3,877,868Trump 52.2%4,685,0474.5%R+9.0D+2.151.3%38*
2012 Mitt RomneyRomney lostObama 41.4%3,308,124Romney 57.2%4,569,8431.5%R+15.8D+3.949.6%38
2008 John McCainMcCain lostObama 43.7%3,528,633McCain 55.5%4,479,3280.9%R+11.8D+7.354.1%34
2004 George W. BushBushKerry 38.2%2,832,704Bush 61.1%4,526,9170.7%R+22.9R+2.553.8%34
2000 George W. BushBushGore 38.0%2,433,746Bush 59.3%3,799,6392.7%R+21.3D+0.549.6%32
1996 Bob DoleDole lostClinton 43.8%2,459,683Dole 48.8%2,736,167Perot 6.8%R+4.9D+8.546.5%32
1992 George H.W. BushBush lostClinton 37.1%2,281,815Bush 40.6%2,496,071Perot 22.0%R+3.5D+5.654.2%32
1988 George H.W. BushBushDukakis 43.4%2,352,748Bush 56.0%3,036,8290.7%R+12.6R+7.750.1%29
1984 Ronald ReaganReaganMondale 36.1%1,949,276Reagan 63.6%3,433,4280.3%R+27.5R+18.251.0%29
1980 Ronald ReaganReaganCarter 41.4%1,881,147Reagan 55.3%2,510,7053.3%R+13.9R+9.747.4%26
1976 Jimmy CarterCarterCarter 51.1%2,082,319Ford 48.0%1,953,3000.9%D+3.2D+2.1—26
1972 Richard NixonNixonMcGovern 33.2%Nixon 66.2%0.6%R+33.0R+23.2—26
1968 Hubert HumphreyHumphrey lostHumphrey 41.1%Nixon 39.9%Wallace 19.0%D+1.3R+0.7—25
1964 Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnsonJohnson 63.3%Goldwater 36.5%0.2%D+26.8D+22.6—25
1960 John F. KennedyKennedyKennedy 50.5%Nixon 48.5%1.0%D+2.0D+0.2—24

Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).

  • 2016: Two Republican electors defected: one voted for Ron Paul and one for John Kasich.

Electoral votes

Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.

  • 2419601950 census
  • 251964–19681960 census
  • 261972–19801970 census
  • 291984–19881980 census
  • 321992–20001990 census
  • 342004–20082000 census
  • 382012–20202010 census
  • 402024–20282020 census
  • 442032–2040projected

Projected: Texas's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 42. An estimate, not a forecast.

Before 1960

Texas cast electoral votes in 26 presidential elections before 1960, the first in 1848. It backed the eventual president in 14 of them. It cast no electoral votes in 1864 and 1868.

YearCarried byElectorsMarginBacked winner
1956Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican24+11.4✓
1952Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican24+6.4✓
1948Harry S. Truman Democratic23+41.1✓
1944Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic23+62.2✓
1940Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic23+61.7✓
1936Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic23+75.2✓
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic23+77.2✓
1928Herbert Hoover Republican20+3.7✓
1924John W. Davis Democratic20+53.9–
1920James M. Cox Democratic20+43.0–
1916Woodrow Wilson Democratic20+63.0✓
1912Woodrow Wilson Democratic20+63.8✓
1908William Jennings Bryan Democratic18+53.5–
1904Alton B. Parker Democratic18+53.0–
1900William Jennings Bryan Democratic15+34.3–
1896William Jennings Bryan Democratic-Populist15+24.2–
1892Grover Cleveland Democratic15+33.5✓
1888Grover Cleveland Democratic13+43.1–
1884Grover Cleveland Democratic13+41.6✓
1880Winfield S. Hancock Democratic8+46.3–
1876Samuel J. Tilden Democratic8+40.5–
1872Horace Greeley Liberal Republican and Democratic8+17.1–
1860John C. Breckinridge Southern Democratic4+51.0–
1856James Buchanan Democratic4+33.3✓
1852Franklin Pierce Democratic4+47.0✓
1848Lewis Cass Democratic4+37.6–

Margin: the winner's lead over the runner-up in the state's popular vote, in points. A dash means the legislature chose the electors (common before the 1830s) or no popular vote is on record. Each year links to that election's map and full results.